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Sorry for the mess of posts, but that's what age does to a guy's technical skills. Okay, here's what I'm talking about, except this pipe is a Peterson, so the hallmarks and the silver band would be genuine. Anyway, it's square.

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OR ! All you guys could just say " I dont have a clue" ! Thanks for pointing out the obvious

Just trying to be helpful, youngster. Those bands fall off regularly when the stem is pulled off for cleaning, and if the briar has shrank in dry air. I've replaced many hundreds of missing bands on estate pipes, and installed many hundreds more to cover and repair cracks in briar pipe shanks.

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Adam's cynicism notwithstanding, we have it nailed now. It's from a tobacco pipe made by CPF (Colossus Pipe Factory), owned by Kauffman Brothers and Bondy in New York City. The pipe to which that band belonged would have been made somewhere between ~1890 and ~1910. Stories I've heard relate that the chicken or turkey was a jibe of sorts at the Brits and their more stuffy hallmarks. Here's the nearly exact twin to your band, but from a round-stemmed pipe.

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Thanks, Pairadiceau. It was pure fortuitousness that DolanDave posted a photo of an obscure object belonging to one of the very few subjects about which I actually happen to know something. By one means or another, my mother's side of the family has been involved in the making and/or selling of tobacco pipes for something like 13 generations, including me. My grandmother's half brother (not one of my gold prospecting uncles) wrote the book on identification of manufacturers of antique and obscure pipes, really the only authoritative book ever written on the subject. I'm researching and writing an updated edition, racing the clock before senility steals my interest in everything but Depends and hard candies (any day now).

Some miner or ranch hand or snake oil salesman was really, really disappointed to lose that little scrap of metal. He might have replaced the band with a nice baling wire wrap to keep the stem tenon tight in the shank. Poor fellow.